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Workshops and Activities 2012
ISS Symposium Hong Kong ,December 2011
Kultur Haslach, Austria June 2012
Fondazione Lisio,Firenze 2012 (to be confirmed)
Profile-Patricia Black is a textile practitioner/costume maker whose career has ranged from design for theatre and dance to teaching her specialized field of dimensional textiles using dyeing techniques whose collective Japanese name is 'shibori'.She teaches workshops worldwide and is planning Italian textile tours/workshops in 2012.
Having her work practice enriched through attending workshops by Japanese dyemasters / designers-Junichi Arai, Hiroyuko Shindo, Kae Hayakawa, and Yoshiko Wada,instigated by a workshop with Inga Hunter and D'Arcie Beytebiere. Patricia joined the World Shibori Network,dedicated to preserving resist dye traditions and encouraging innovation for the future.She has been a speaker at the ISS conference in Chile (2000),a demonstrator at the Harrogate ISS Symposium(2002) adapting traditional techniques to create ethereal 3-D forms that enfold the body.She also uses wool felt for 'resist sculpting'.
Patricia has been workshop leader /speaker conferences worldwide including the European Textile Network conferences in Haslach ,Austria (2009/10) Rovaniemi,Finland (2000), Felt-in-Focus,Galmsberg,Denmark,(2009)Textileforum, Australia for several years ,ISS Symposium,Santiago,1999; Harrogate,UK (2000) ,HV Skolan ,Stockholm (2006) and Silk Painters Association-l'Arte de Soie,Paris (2006) and she is an annual tutor at Fondazione Lisio,Florence.
Her work was chosen for Artwear, a retrospective of 'Wearable-Art' at the San Francisco Fine Arts museum,represented in collections of the Wearable Art Awards of New Zealand in which she won best Design Prize (1994).Trame D'Autore,Biblioteque di Chieri,Italia (2008) and Australian National Gallery ,Ballarat Regional Art Gallery and NZ WOW Awards have collected her works.
Patricia is a member of the World Shibori Network,TAFTA, Australia ,'L'arte de Soie'- and is a regular writer for TEXERE-the education subgroup of European Textile Network.
Patricia conducts workshops worldwide and is currently researching the textile history of Italy ,particularly Venice with a bookon this subject in progress...
Updated 6-11-2011
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